Putting a 75 back on the road, finished my removable battery tray....and upgraded my blast cabinet |
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Putting a 75 back on the road, finished my removable battery tray....and upgraded my blast cabinet |
JStroud |
Nov 3 2011, 01:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,463 Joined: 15-January 11 From: Galt, California Member No.: 12,594 Region Association: Northern California |
I finally got around to organizing my pictures to document my progress. I bought my car, a 75 914 2.0 in November 2010. It was originaly purchased in Sacramento Ca, the original owner sold it to his son in 1994, the son drove it until "it started running rough", and he parked it. It sat until 2008 when he sold it to his friend who was going to get it running, two years later it was still sitting, but with the engine out and pieces in boxes. So being the smart guy I am, I bought it. Here's some pics of the car when I got it home.
The PO had pulled the engine with the intent of fixing it, then somewhere along the way he purchased a "running" 73 2.0. So I have a spare motor. I spent a few months buying books and reading what I could find, (never worked on a 914 before) found this website! I decided to rebuild the original motor... here I go. Got the engine stripped down, and the case split. Found out why they parked it, looks like a dropped valve seat. Damaged the top of the piston as well. I took the case, heads, crank, and cylinders to the machine shop, Time to start some rust repair. The battery tray was toast, the rest seems to be just surface rust, except the trunk it has a few rusted through pin holes. After I finished removing the battery tray I pressure washed the engine compartment, trunk, and under the trunk. I finished all this by february, but the next step was to sand blast the rust, and EVERY weekend it would be raining, so the car sat in the garage. Then I had a major set back, My Dad was diagnosed with cancer in april, had surgery in May. So April - june are kind of a blurr, He has recovered very well, but progress on the car was slow for a while, had to get caught up on work. I went to Doc's tranny clinic in Discovery Bay in June and rebuilt my transmission. My tranny all apart. Good thing Doc talked me into going, bearing was in pieces when I took it apart. A few familiar faces. All done ready to install, wish the car was ready... Of course in all the down time I did find time to do a little parts shopping. And I decided to build a blast cabinet Almost done Ready for action. And I did a lot of reorganizing in the garage, this is the first car I've done in 20 years, oh ya, did I mention i'm old. Well the weather finally got nicer, work slowed up a bit and I finally got the car out and sandblasted. After I finished sandblasting I washed the area down with metal prep, and then back in the garage for painting. Almost ready to primer Everything got two coats primer. I decided to paint the engine compartment gloss black, and under the trunk and fender wells flat black. I bought cans of color match paint online to paint the trunk. A final coat of clear and the painting is done.. for now. |
JStroud |
Feb 25 2012, 08:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,463 Joined: 15-January 11 From: Galt, California Member No.: 12,594 Region Association: Northern California |
Its been a while since I updated this, but I have been working. I got my trailing arms all sandblasted, primed and painted over the holidays.
The rest of the suspension parts got sandblasted, primed and painted. Then a couple of weeks ago I finished sandblasting, priming, and painting the engine tin. Today I went to the Breakfast in San Ramon, 13 914s showed up, fun morning. I got home and decided to work on the car, but I need a break from cleaning, and sandblasting. So I decided to work on my battery tray, I wanted to install my new battery tray so it was removable. Heres how I did it. I welded a piece of angle iron to the inside fender to sit just under the back edge of the tray. Then I welded a piece of flat stock on the bottom of the tray to create a slot for the angle iron to slip into. On the front of the tray I drilled four holes that lined up with the tray support bracket, I threaded the holes and threaded a screw in with the head cut off, then spot welded the top side. A little grinding to flatten out the welds and we have four studs sticking out the bottom. After a few adjustments it fit snug and goes in and out easily. I touched up the paint on the angle iron piece and the tray support with black rubberized undercoating paint, thought it might add cushion and maybe avoid a rattle, probably have enough rattles already. One more coat of paint on the battery tray tonight, then one more item off the list. Jeff |
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